Life in the garden /
Lively, Penelope, 1933-
Life in the garden / Penelope Lively. - 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes index.
Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother's garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive Oxfordshire gardens of her own, and the smaller urban garden in the North London home she lives in today. It is also a wise, engaging and far-ranging exploration of gardens in literature, from Paradise Lost to Alice in Wonderland, and of writers and their gardens, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Larkin.
9780241319628 0241319625
Lively, Penelope, 1933- --Homes and haunts.
Gardening.
Gardens in literature.
PN56.G3 / L58 2017
Life in the garden / Penelope Lively. - 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes index.
Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother's garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive Oxfordshire gardens of her own, and the smaller urban garden in the North London home she lives in today. It is also a wise, engaging and far-ranging exploration of gardens in literature, from Paradise Lost to Alice in Wonderland, and of writers and their gardens, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Larkin.
9780241319628 0241319625
Lively, Penelope, 1933- --Homes and haunts.
Gardening.
Gardens in literature.
PN56.G3 / L58 2017